elk dolk wrote:
On 3 February 2010 16:07, wrote:
I currently have all my images referenced by url in my database and stored
in a folder/s and I think I will keep it that way...
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If you put the images OUTSIDE of the webroot/docroot/public_html
folder (whatever you have), then a user cannot directly navigate to
the file.
e.g.
/home/sites/your_site/public_html/images/image1.jpg
http://www.yoursite.com/images/image1.jpg would probably work.
But ...
/home/sites/your_site/public_html/getImage.php
/home/sites/your_site/hidden_images/image1.jpg
Now, there is no way I can load image1.jpg from my browser. I have to
use getImage.php, which I assume would require me to login or
authenticate myself in some way.
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I have my photos in /public_html/img/gid directory and with this path:
<img src='http://www.mydomain.com/img/{$gid}/{$photoFileName}' in getImage.php the server displays the photos.
Now if I put my photos outside of the public_html like this:
/hidden_images/img/gid
what would be the correct path to the photos in the getImage.php script?
Do you mean what url? You'll need a script to pull them from outside the
document root. The advantage of this is you can do authentication checks
before displaying the image. The disadvantage is the web-server isn't
serving the images directly so there will be a slow down.
So you point your images to
getimage.php?image=123456
and getimage.php does your authentication checks if necessary then pulls
the image back using something like http://www.php.net/fpassthru
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